280 PENTAND1UA— MONOGYNIA. Anagallis. 



Perennial. May — September. 



Stems creeping at the base, decumbent, often pendent from banks 

 and rocks, branched, 12 or 18 inches long-, leafy, square, smooth, 

 red and pellucid. Leaves opposite, stalked, veiny, of a bright 

 shining green, rather succulent. Fl. of a golden yellow, about 

 half the size of L. vulgaris, each on a simple, slender, twisting, 

 axillary, solitary stalk, about the length of the adjoining leaf. 

 Cat. awl-shaped. Cor. divided beyond the middle, fringed with 

 minute glandular hairs. Stam. yellow, quite smooth. Caps. 

 globular, of 10 narrow valves, connected in pairs. One of our 

 most elegant, though not uncommon, plants. 



4. L. Nummular ia. Creeping Loosestrife. Money 

 wort, or Herb Twopence. 



Leaves somewhat heart-shaped. Flowers solitary. Stem 

 prostrate, creeping. Stamens glandular. 



L. Nummularia. Linn. Sp. PI. 211. mild, v. 1. 821. Fl. Br. 229. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 528. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 14. Hook. Scot. 72. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 493. 



L. n. 629. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 278. 



Nummularia. RaiiSyn. 283. Ger. Em. 630./. Camer. Epit. 7 55./. 



In wet meadows, boggy pastures, and the borders of rivulets. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Herb smooth, of a pale green. Stems quite prostrate, creeping, 

 compressed, with 4 prominent angles, a foot or 2 in length, 

 scarcely branched. Leaves on short stalks, roundish-heart-shaped, 

 wavy, with a small point. Flower -stalks angular, axillary, the 

 length of the leaves. Fl. rather larger than the last, pale le- 

 mon-coloured. Cal. ovate, or heart-shaped. Cor. clothed with 

 glandular hairs, as are likewise the whitish stamens. Caps, sel- 

 dom perfected, the plant increasing much by the roots. 



102. ANAGALLIS. Pimpernel. 



Linn. Gen. 83. Juss. 95. Fl. Br. 229. Tourn. t. 59. Lam. MO J. 

 Gcertn. t. 50. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 100. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, spreading, acute, keeled 

 segments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, wheel-shaped; 

 tube none; limb nearly flat, in 5 deep, roundish-ovate 

 segments, contracted at their base. Filam. erect, slender, 

 shorter than the corolla, clothed, in the middle part more 

 especially, with prominent glandular hairs. Anth. heart- 

 shaped. Germ, globose. Style thread-shaped. Stigma 

 capitate ; or sometimes simple. Caps, globular, of 1 cell, 



